Publication: CRN

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31 July, 2015

U.S. venture capital investments rose 24% in the second quarter of 2015, reaching dot-com era levels of $19.19 billion, according to Dow Jones VentureSource. Worldwide, venture capital investments in the second quarter rose to $32 billion, according to KPMG and CB Insights…

Publication: Forbes

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30 July, 2015

Alibaba Group announced today that it will invest a further $1 billion into Aliyun, its cloud computing unit. The capital will be used to expand Aliyun, which currently has data centers in China, Hong Kong, and Silicon Valley, into other international markets…

Publication: TechCrunch

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30 July, 2015

Startups developing technology for collecting, analyzing and managing big data make up a disproportionate number of the companies on this year’s CRN list of emerging vendors. That’s not so surprising when you consider that big data is one of the hottest segments of the IT industry right now…

Publication: BloombergBusiness

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21 July, 2015

The National Security Agency (NSA) is not perhaps known for its openness and willingness to share. That’s not what it does, essentially — and of course not why it exists. That being said, it appears that the core spirit of open source collaborative software application development is very much recognized…

Publication: The Motley Fool

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20 July, 2015

451 Research recently released the latest update to their Cloud Price Index. The basic cost of renting from one of the big public cloud providers has fallen just over 2% since the Index began in October 2014. For those who are willing to commit to buying cloud-based resources for…

Publication: Forbes

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17 July, 2015

“If you have a big problem like fraud you don’t want to wait three years until you can act on your insights,” said Ingo Mierswa, founder and CTO of RapidMiner, a predictive analytics firm that ranks in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Advanced Analytics Platforms. The company, which grew…

Publication: Forbes

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17 July, 2015

For mainstream corporations operating in mature markets, finding the opportunity for disruption using Big Data can be a daunting challenge. Although the economic opportunity is enormous, mainstream corporations face business impediments and complex legacy environments. The opportunity to realize significant business benefits is often based on optimization of operational processes…